I hope everyone is having a safe, happy and wonderful holiday! I’m taking a bit of a break this week and next, but when you’re not busy spreading holiday cheer check back here on PuppetVision…2008 was (I think anyway) a great year for puppet film and video and I’m going to spend the next week [...]
Canada’s comedy network is broadcasting Ventriloquist Jeff Dunham’s new Christmas schedule. Just for the benefit of PuppetVision’s Canadian readers, here in the Great White North the Comedy Network will be airing ventriloquist Jeff Dunham’s holiday special Jeff Dunham’s Very Special Christmas Special this Saturday, December 20th. Encore presentations are scheduled for December 22nd and 24-25, [...]
The new Muppet special, A Muppet Christmas: Letters To Santa airs on NBC in the United States Wednesday night. Just a quick reminder that A Muppet Christmas: Letters To Santa (see previous post) airs tomorrow night on NBC in the U.S. The special is getting one final publicity push on daytime TV Wednesday with Kermit [...]
In case you haven’t heard, The Muppets have a new holiday special coming to TV next week called A Muppet Christmas: Letters To Santa (see previous post). So far, the early reviews of Letters to Santa have been good and NBC has been heavily promoting the special; their efforts include a new Muppet viral video [...]
Production continues on the upcoming Muppet Christmas special Letters To Santa (Photo Credit: Flickr user djandzoya). Joe Hennes was back on the set of the upcoming Muppet Christmas special Letters to Santa again (see previous post) and this time he brought fellow Tough Pig Ryan Roe along with him. They spent a day in the [...]
If you’re not too busy trimming trees and decking halls over the holidays here’s some fun Christmas puppet stuff to check out: The final installments of the Save Xmas Now podcast have been posted. You can check out all of them here. Also, the stars of Save Xmas Now helped Henson.com Podcast host Grant Baciocco [...]
Bill Cosby turns John Madden into Santa Claus and starts a holiday tradition in the mildly warped Celebrity Bric-a-Brac Theatre: The First Christmas. For all of you out there who are fans of found object puppetry, Christmas and Bill Cosby I present Celebrity Bric-a-Brac Theatre: The First Christmas from Blame Society Films (the folks behind [...]
Christmas is a rare example of legendary puppeteer Richard Teschner’s work. Here’s a little Christmas treat…a recently restored video of Christmas by Richard Teschner, the famed puppeteer who adapted traditional Javanese rod puppets for western puppet theatre in the early 20th century. Teschner’s work influenced generations of puppeteers (including the Muppets) and is still felt [...]
Santa helps a little boy who wants something naughty for Christmas. This is a Christmas video from PuppetGreetings.com about Santa helping a naughty little boy named Billy with his girl trouble. Santa was performed by Kevin Carlson and Billy by Patrick Johnson. That great-looking Santa puppet in the video was built by the very talented [...]
Transylvania TV’s Furry Ackermonster wants to wish everyone a Merry Christmas. Gordon sent in this quick, but cute puppet ecard from Transylvania TV (for more on TVTV, see my previous post). You can watch it here.
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